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On Post-Selection Confidence Intervals In Linear Regression, Xinwei Zhang
On Post-Selection Confidence Intervals In Linear Regression, Xinwei Zhang
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The general goal of this thesis is to investigate and examine some issues about post-selection inference which arises from the setting where statistical inference is carried out after a datadriven model selection step. In this setting, the classical inference theory which requires a fixed priori model becomes invalid since the selected model is a result of random event. Hence, a common practice in applied research which ignores the model selection and builds up confidence interval will result in misleading or even false conclusion. In this thesis, specifically, we first discusses some examples to show how the classical inference theory loses …